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Lina Raymond is back with a new show "On The Avenue", showcased at Portalis.
Painted over a two year time frame, this show features Ballard Avenue in autumn and winter.

A little off the beaten track, but just around the corner from Market Street is the Robert Madsen Design Gallery, featuring Jan Kipling Anderson and her grouping "Mostly Black and White: Street Photgraphy.

Stop by Market Street Shoes on November 8 and see paintings by Tom Koontz. Tom is a former college professor who moved to Seattle after retirement, and is known for his poetry as well as his paintings.

Sticks & Stones Seattle is hosting an installation and series of works by renowned Seattle artist Kate Tesch. Titled "Falling Down", these works explore the nature of paint as both a liquid and an aesthetic device. The works and installations can be found all over the gallery, from the stairs themselves to the shelves, walls and windows.

Robert Madsen Gallery is a little off the beaten path, but well worth the trip. For November, they are featuring the photography of Jan Kipling Anderson,
"Mostly Black and White: Street Photography" featuring limited edition prints.

Artist Karen Klee-Atlin will be demonstrating how to print a woodcut at the Blue House Yellow Dog Studio. Prints will be available for sale, as well as prints by Carmi Weingrod.
There will also be book bags, purses and napkins by Sara Kelley.

Eight local printmaker's explored the theme of "Fragments" using a variety of unique printmaking techniques for this exhibit. Enjoy the multitude of colors and textures in this fascinating display of their latest work.

Seattle-area artist and author Vikram Madan likes to create fun, humorous and whimsical experiences that invite embracing a more innocent view of the world. A former award-winning cartoonist, Vikram paints in traditional and digital media, and writes and illustrates humorous-poetry, including the award-winning book, The Bubble Collector.

Vikram hopes that, through his work, he can help make the world a better place one shared moment of levity at a time.

Marlin will be featuring his most recent collection of photographs of the Kiger Mustangs. These beautiful mustangs are the oldest horses in North America--brought to our country over 400 years ago by the Spanish. Their story is as compelling as the images that Marlin has captured. Come pay witness to an American Legend.

Horseshoe will donate a percentage of Saturdays sales to the Kiger Mustang Refuge.

The story
of the Kiger Mustangs:

The band of twenty-seven horses discovered by the BLM(bureau of
land management) in the Beatys Butte wilderness of eastern Oregon in 1977 was
the last group to be found that are so true to type -- the last of the Spanish
"special forces horses" that had come to the Americas in the 1600s.
When the BLM moved the herd to two management areas -- Kiger Creek and Riddle
Mountain -- where they could be protected and developed, they insured
short-term that the Kigers would survive. Now there are precious few of these
unique, pure and top class examples of the Spanish origin horses left. There
are less than 200 in the wild in the BLM areas. Maybe twice that number that
are viable breeders, pure and top class, exist in captivity (excluding the
geldings). These horses are endangered by situation if not by government
designation.

After receiving her fine art degree from CCA, San Francisco, Trilby Hainstock worked as a scenic artist and properties artisan here in Seattle creating large sets for the theater. Collaboration taught her to find beauty in re-purposing materials and to find new ways to combine technology and craft.

Her current collection under the company name OLIOTTO includes silkscreened designs on paper, cotton tea towels and canvas totes, as well as reversible leather bracelets. She often finds that limited resources and humble materials are her biggest inspiration and aspires to make objects that are uniquely modern, utilitarian, and affordable. Her work has been featured in Seattle Met, Seattle Magazine, Ecoterre, and Lark Books.

This month Trilby will be featuring a new Wallingford tea towel to join her previous Seattle neighborhood designs (Ballard, Greenlake, Seattle Center, West Seattle) as well as Seattle Neighborhood greeting cards and an expanded collection of reversible leather bracelets.

Not since her epic 2010 show Bearing Witness / adaption have we had such a collection of Lina Raymond paintings. That show featured lost landmarks of Ballard: Sunset Bowl, Denny's, Ballard Camera, Abraxis Books and the like.

This show, Lina Raymond: On The Avenue, showcases the spirit of Ballard Avenue.

In the artist's words:

In a series that will take 2 more years to complete,
this show presents the first paintings in which I attempt to capture this old
fishing village that I have lovingly come to call home. Although my approach
was initially inspired from impressionistic works such as Pierre Bonnard’s
paintings of Monmarte (painted not long after these Ballard buildings were
built), my affection for this spot at this moment in time has led me to
producing more tediously detailed (and more contemporary) results. They are all
acrylic on canvas &/or hardboard, and depict Ballard Avenue in Fall and
Winter. The next round of pieces will be of the Avenue in Spring and Summer.